Should I allow clients to update their site themselves?

It seems that everyone that I speak to that wants a website, always says that they want to be able to update the site themselves.

I can understand where they are coming from but I'm not sure if it is a good idea.

I need to make a decision on whether I am going to promote the fact that they can do this and stick to wordpress templates or decide to not offer this feature.

My reasoning is this:

They might think that they need to be able to do this but by the time they have worked out how to log in, and then find the area on the site that needs changing, it would probably be a lot easier to just pay me a nominal fee to do it.

Then you've got the possibility of them breaking the site and me having to fix it!

I feel this will only lead to me spending my time answering questions from them on how to do this and teaching them wordpress.

I can imagine that once you give them access to the site they will then start looking at all kinds of other things that they want to change and I will be the one telling them how instead of charging them for my time.

Basically its good for the client but bad for me.

Also going down this route limits the use of HTML templates and designs which I actually find easier to work with and better looking. So..


Do you think that giving the client this ability is a good or bad idea?

Am I going to alienate a large percentage of potential clients if I choose not to?

Should I just try and re-educate them to just send me an email with the changes, pay the quote they receive and let me do the work properly.

Anyone have any opinions/experiences as I Just can't make a decision here and need help!